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TIL the aeroplane was invented just 4 years after the car was (1886 -> 1890)

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5VXDD TIL The Great auk (Pinguinus impennis) was a flightless black and white birds found around the North Atlantic. As explores went south the found birds that resembled the Great auk and named them penguins too, but they are actually unrelated.
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